Improved riding-saddle



dni-ted gaat @wat @Wina GEORGEl HOR'IER, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HORTER.

PETERSEN & FENNER-OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 105,080, dated July 5, 1870.'

IMPROVE!) RIDIIING-SADIIXIIE.v

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern.-- v

Be it known `that LGEORGE Homan, of New Orleans, in the parishoi Orleans and State of Louisiana, have inventedanew and useful Improvement in Sade' dies; andl do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference lbein g hadto the accompanying drawing forming a part Aof this specification, in which-- Figui-e1 is a sideelevation, and Figure 2 is av transverse vertical section inthe line a: x, tig. 1.

Theohject had in View in making this invention was the production of a very cheap, and, at the same time,l a very durable saddle, mainly for use iu districts like the southern and south-western parts ofthe United States, where horseback riding is the chief` means of locomotiomg and where most of rthe inhabitants' are very-poor; To this end,

The invention consists in a saddle whose skirts are made of a foundation of split, t'. e., the portion that remains after the surface of leather has been taken off by splitting, and which is rough and generally unt for the uses to which leather is put, and a covering of enameled muslin, drill, duck, o1' hcgskin, all which materials fulfill the the necessary conditions of cheapnessand durability.- Y

In the drawingais the found. tion;

b'the covering; and

,tl the binding.

A sideof skirting-leather is -worlh $7 .50, while a side of split is worth only $1. Excess of cost of leather over split, $6.50.

The` seat of the saddle is made of the usual material. s

Having thus described my invention,

WhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A saddle-skirt, made of a split foundation `and a covering of muslin, drill, duck, hogskin, or other equiv.- aient material, substantially as described.

' GEORGE HORTER.

Witnesses A HENRY SUBRA, R. B. HANIss. 

